On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 08:52, Marc Powell wrote:
> >
> > perl -MCPAN -e shell
> >
> >
> > (but using CPAN to update perl will break things)
>
> I use CPAN all the time and haven't had any problems. Are you saying
> this because yum/rpm wouldn't know they were installed? Can you expand
> on your concerns?
It shouldn't be a problem to add new modules via CPAN that the core
rpms don't know about. It would be a problem to upgrade perl to
a new version this way.
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Les Mikesell
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